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Theory of excitons and solitons in molecular systems (Review)

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This paper was read at the Scientific Session of the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR, dedicated to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute of Physics (January 17–18, 1980, Minsk).

Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 589–611, October, 1980.

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Davydov, A.S. Theory of excitons and solitons in molecular systems (Review). J Appl Spectrosc 33, 1029–1047 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00608372

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